by Mike Garrity | Nov 9, 2014 | AWR, bears, logging, lynx
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record While many people may decry litigious environmental groups and point fingers at judges that rule in the groups’ favor, it’s hard to deny that they have often prevailed in court, and the federal government has been found in...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 12, 2014 | AWR, BLM, logging, lynx, roads, timber, wildlife
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record Federal officials have halted a timber sale near Ovando and agreed, with two conservation groups, to analyze the impacts on the federally threatened Canada lynx. In an order released Sept. 8, the Bureau of Land Management remanded its...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 12, 2014 | AWR, BLM, logging, lynx
BLM must Study Lynx after Halting Timber Sale near Ovando BLM pulls Logging Project in Lynx Critical Habitat after Conservation Groups’ Appeal Court Order (PDF) Motion to Vacate (PDF)
by Mike Garrity | Sep 11, 2014 | AWR, bears, BLM, logging, lynx
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pulled a previous decision to go forward with a 2,700-acre clearcutting, thinning, and road-building project after the Alliance for the Wild...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 21, 2014 | AWR, lynx
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a new lynx habitat rule after being sanctioned by a federal district judge in Missoula. On Thursday, the USFWS published draft economic and environmental analyses of the areas...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 1, 2014 | AWR, forest, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, lynx, wolverines
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Great Falls, to stop the Forest Service’s Blankenship Vegetation Treatment Project near Monarch, over concerns for Canadian lynx, goshawk and wolverines....